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100	1		_aMaclean, Magnus, _d1857-1937
245	1	4	_aThe literature of the Celts
250			_aNew edition
264		1	_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2025
300			_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats
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337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aRelease date is 2025-09-30
508			_aRichard Tonsing, Charlene Taylor, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
520			_a"The literature of the Celts" by Magnus Maclean is a scholarly survey of Celtic literary history written in the early 20th century. It introduces general readers to the origins, manuscripts, myths, saints, and revivals of Celtic writing, from Ogam stones and early Gaelic-Latin texts through monastic learning to saga cycles and their European influence. The work maps key sources, periods, and scholars, arguing for the richness and enduring significance of the Celtic tradition. The opening of this study sets out the surge of modern interest in Celtic studies, citing Continental scholarship, Kuno Meyer’s optimism, and Yeats’s hopes for Celtic legend, before explaining the book’s aim as a concise, popular guide distilled from university lectures. It then sketches, in Chapter I, the historical backdrop of the Celts in Europe, their migrations and conquests, the linguistic split between Gadelic (Q) and Brittonic (P) branches, classical testimony from Greek and Roman writers, and the eventual literary awakening marked by Ogam inscriptions, the adoption of the Roman script, and early monastic texts; it also notes that the earliest sustained Gaelic appears in glosses and marginalia on the Continent, and situates Celtic within the Aryan language family. Chapter II focuses on St. Patrick as the first clearly identifiable Celtic writer, recounting the reliable sources on his life, his captivity and call, and summarizing his surviving works—the Latin “Confession” and “Epistle to Coroticus,” and the Gaelic lorica known as the “Deer’s Cry”—while acknowledging uncertain dates and later legendary dialogues. The start of Chapter III introduces St. Columba as Scotland’s earliest man of letters, a scholar-poet whose Iona community kindled a lasting literary and religious renaissance. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534			_pOriginally published: _cLondon: Blackie and Son Limited, 1926
653			_aCeltic literature -- History and criticism
653			_aIreland -- In literature
856	4		_uhttps://archive.org/details/literatureofcelt00macl/page/n5/mode/2up
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76961
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